Adopted Gecko Problems

[Hypertensive]

About your leo: We have 2 female lets
- Sex: Both Female
- Age & Weight: approx. 1 yr, 26g and 22g
- How long have you owned your leo: just adopted from another family
- Where was he/she obtained (ex. Pet store, breeder, wild caught, friend): originally obtained from a petstore

A) Health/History
- How often do you handle your leo: Unknown
- Is your leo acting any different today? If so how does he/she normally act which differs from now.: Unknown
- Has he/she had any problems in the past, if so please describe.: Unknown, suspected to have MBD (
B) Fecals
- Describe (look any different than normal): Unknown
- When was the last time he/she went: unknown
C) Problem
- Please briefly describe the problem and how long it has been going on

Issue: large lump in above tail, and the end of her spinal column

Housing:
A) Enclosure
- Size : 10 gal (we will be moving to larger 50 gal when stress levels decline)
- Type (ex. glass tank) :Glass
- Type of substrate: carpet
- Hides, how many, what kind: two large basking rocks
B) Heating
- Heat source: lamp
- Cage temps (hot side, cool side): unknown
- Method of regulating heat source: unknown
- What are you using to measure your temps
- Do you have any lights (describe): one flood lamp
C) Cage mates
- How many (males, females): 1 female, also having problems walking. possible fracture.
- Describe health, or previous problems: unknown

Describe Diet:
A) Typical diet: crickets
- What you're feeding (how often, how much): 2-3 every other day
- How are you feeding (hand fed, left in dish, eat): left in disk
B) Supplements (describe how often)
- What vitamin/minerals are you using (list brands): none/unknown
- What are you gut loading food with: orange cubes

We have a healthy female leo and adopted two more from a family that didn't really know how to care for leos. This post is in reference to the two NEW leos. We are adding supplemental calcium in a dish, dusting crickets and meal worms, gut loading with orange cubes. We are also adding vitamin D3.

For now we are letting the two new geckos acclimate before introducing to our existing leo.

Question: Should we vet check (we have an exotic vet in town)? See pics of lump on spine. Any other suggestions are appreciated.

 

[Kmay571]

Whenever getting a reptile from a poor background, I would recommending letting a vet see it. I can't see your pictures, but a bump on a spine may be a kink or it could be something more serious. I would keep the animals in quarantine for at least a few weeks just be be sure there isn't anything that can be passed to your own Leo.


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[acpart]

I agree about the vet and the quarantine. It's hard to make out the lump from the picture. Are the geckos walking up on their feet, or are they "army crawling" on their forearms and elbows? Army crawling suggests MBD. I also recommend you consider ditching the lights and getting under tank heaters. Also, the orange cubes are really just water crystals with dye, so they're not much of a gut load. You'd probably do better with a jar of powdered grain gut load (Flukers makes that too, though I'm not sure how good it is) or by getting some unsweetened grains and pulverizing them in the blender. Good luck with them.

Aliza

 

[Hypertensive]

The one we think might of had a fracture at one point is army crawling. The one with the lump on the spine walks normally just has this nodule or lump at her spine. We are definitely dumping the lamp. And have used under tank heat for our Leo, which they will have once moved/if moved if we can't move them will definitely get one.
Felt bad for these 2 but definitely don want to do damage to our beautiful baby either! Thanks for the info.